• Question: what science/sciences do you need to take to be a police officer?

    Asked by devynbell to Alison, Artem, Caroline, John, Gunther on 19 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Alison Graham

      Alison Graham answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Have a look on this Police Recruitment website:

      http://policerecruitment.homeoffice.gov.uk/police-officer/index.html

      It seems to have lots of detailed information about joining the police.

    • Photo: Matt Gunther

      Matt Gunther answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      It generally depends on what you’d like to go into within the police. If you’d want to be the CSI-type, you’d probably have to do some sort of forensic science qualification before applying, as one of my friends has done in the past year. I do know that the police off a rather robust suite of qualifications as part of your training.

    • Photo: Artem Evdokimov

      Artem Evdokimov answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      Logic, deductive reasoning, basic chemistry, anatomy, psychology, the list goes on and on. It depends on what kind of law enforcement work you intend to do – some of the investigative techniques employed by the authorities are close to the cutting edge science (analytical mass-spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescense, 3D reconstruction, neutron backscatter detectors, DNA forensics etc.)

    • Photo: John Short

      John Short answered on 21 Jun 2012:

      None to be a normal police officer. If you want to go into forensics, biology and chemistry are required

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